Inside & Out

The popularity of breastfeeding is growing in the United States thanks in part to global guideline, that the Trump administration reportedly tried to water down earlier this year. Many women still face challenges trying to maintain a regimen.

Published in April, the study involved over 200 scientists and genetic data from 135,000 people reportedly with depression and nearly 350,000 healthy people across several countries has vastly expanded our knowledge of the genetic factors that increase risk of depression.

The World Health Organization estimates it kills 7.5 million people per year and many of those deaths are preventable. In the U.S. leading health organizations have just lowered their blood pressure guidelines in the hopes of saving more lives.

For decades, the Philippines has managed to dodge the HIV epidemic, but it’s now spreading fast in the country, particularly among males having sex with males. As Barnaby Lo reports, it’s got the highest rate of new infections in the Asia Pacific region.

Thirty years ago, an HIV/AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. This year, the medical community confirmed that, if HIV in your blood is undetectable, you can’t transmit it. Implications for more than 36 million HIV-positive people worldwide are great.

Healthcare is a lucrative business and there’s one sector looking to get in on the act – the tech industry. As VR matures, it’s being used more and more to treat both psychological and physical pain. CGTN’s Phil Lavelle reports.

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